Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?

[Fam Zheng]

On Wed, 07/05 12:04, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> While you can say people should just add '-M pc' that isn't a nice
> user experiance, because it makes the assumption that people actually
> understand what caused their breakage. When the incompatibilities
> arise the error messages are unlikely to give any hint to users that
> the problems are caused by the machine type change. So unless someone
> is very familiar with debugging QEMU, they're not going to realize
> that '-M pc' will fix their problem.

While we change the default, can we start to print a message like 'machine type
("-M" option) not specified, default to Q35. If you find compatibility issues,
try "-M pc"'?

Fam